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Modern Software Measurement Techniques

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Ruiqing Jia, China University of Mining and Technology; Shanjun Xu, China University of Mining and Technology; Songyun Gao, China University of Mining and Technology; El-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

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coefficient C D = Df (q 0S) Df: drag force 3 Dynamic pressure q 0 = 0.5ρV0 2 ρ: density of air 4 Lift force Lf = C L q 0S q0: dynamic pressure of air 5 Reynolds Number Re = Vb v V: free-stream velocity v: viscosity of air b: characteristic length 6 Mach Number Ma = V a a: speed of sound

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Modern Software Measurement Techniques

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Roger Lee, Coherent Systems International; Rafic Bachnak, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

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and output parameter as shownin figure 3, the user should enter data to the prompted input parameters. The valid inputsare: (a) single value x, (b) a sequence of values separated by commas (,) as x,y,z, (c)beginning and ending values with step value 1 as x:z, and (d) beginning, step, and endingvalues as x:y:z. If the input is other invalid data, the system will flash an error of “illegalinput at n-th input” in the “system error box” at the left bottom corner of the screen. Also,shown in figure 3, to be a user friendly system, the system provides the user with thecapability of selecting various commonly used units for inputs and output, and once aunit is selected the other units of the same parameter will be automatically unselected. Auser can

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Developing New Instrumentation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Narciso Macia, Arizona State University

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]. Page 11.501.2 Proceedings of the 2006 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @ 2006, American Society for Engineering EducationWhat has prompted the changes from the previous implementation? The main one is theindustry shift to use Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) rather than custom analog circuitsfor low-number applications. This is primarily due to: a) increase in labor costs b) decrease in PLC cost c) decrease in number of personnel capable of working with electronic analog circuits d) added flexibility that results from control implementations that depend on software rather than hardware e) increased level of reproducibility that results

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Novel Measurement Experiments

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Terrance Lovell, Pennsylvania State University-Berks; Dale Litwhiler, Pennsylvania State University-Berks

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2006-576: TEACHING A COMPUTER TO READ: IMAGE ANALYSIS OFELECTRICAL METERSTerrance Lovell, Pennsylvania State University-Berks Terrance D. Lovell is an electrical engineering student at Penn State Berks in Reading, PA where he has completed his associate’s degree in electrical engineering technology. He is a research assistant in the EET department. Prior to his academic pursuits he was an electronics countermeasures technician for the U. S. Marine Corps.Dale Litwhiler, Pennsylvania State University-Berks Dale H. Litwhiler is an Assistant Professor at Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College in Reading, PA. He received his B.S. from Penn State University, his M.S. from Syracuse

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Novel Measurement Experiments

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Richard Hoehn, Middle Tennessee State University; Saleh Sbenaty, Middle Tennessee State University; William Day, Middle Tennessee State University

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2006-2041: DESIGNING, BUILDING, AND TESTING A CLOSEDCOMPARTMENT STAGE INCUBATOR, CCSIRichard Hoehn, Middle Tennessee State University RICHARD HOEHN, Mr. Hoehn is currently a graduate student, Computer Engineering Technology major at Middle Tennessee State University. Mr. Hoehn’s interests are wide spread in the technical field of PLC and PC-Based control applications. This also covers the design of embedded systems using off-the-shelf microcontrollers, CPLDs, and FPGAs. Mr. Hoehn is currently working for SME and is responsible for PLC and PC-Based instrumentation and control applications as well software development.Saleh Sbenaty, Middle Tennessee State University SALEH M. SBENATY, Dr

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Developing New Instrumentation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jahangir Ansari, Virginia State University; Yoon Kim, Virginia State University

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Engineering Education, 2006 Instrumentation for Vibration and Modal Testing - A Senior Design ProjectAbstractThis project was designed for senior students to enhance their hands-on experience withtechnical instruments and computer based simulations.Throughout this project, senior students constructed an instrumental set-up to experimentallyidentify modal characteristics of a bell-shaped structure. Impact excitation method was used toidentify the first five resonance frequencies and a commercial FEA package was used to verifythe validity of the set up for further applications.IntroductionAt Virginia State University, senior project is a three credit elective course that engineeringstudents can take in their

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Instrumentation and Measurements: Innovative Course Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Farrow, University of Tennessee-Martin

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2006-38: DEVELOPMENT OF AN INSTRUMENTATION AND EXPERIMENTALMETHODS COURSE AND LABORATORY FOR A BSE PROGRAMDavid Farrow, University of Tennessee-Martin David Farrow is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee at Martin. He received B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1989, 1990, and 1995, respectively. Dr. Farrow has taught courses in solid modeling, mechanical vibrations, automatic controls, automated production systems, and instrumentation and experimental methods at the University of Tennessee at Martin for three and a half years

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Developing New Instrumentation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Radian Belu, Wayne State University

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2006-1152: DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ACOOPERATIVE/DISTRIBUTED INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENTLABORATORY FOR DIVERSE-STUDENT POPULATIONRadian Belu, Wayne State University Radian Belu is Assistant Professor at the College of Engineerig, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA. He hold a PhD in Physics and the other in Power Engineering. Dr. Belu published over 55 papers in referred journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include power engineering, atmosphere physics, radar and remote sensing, physics and engineering education. Page 11.448.1© American Society for Engineering Education

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Instrumentation and Measurements: Innovative Course Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Hong Zhang, Rowan University; Courtney Richmond, Rowan University; Ying Tang, Rowan University; Patricia Mosto, Rowan University

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‘mini-observation station’ or ‘video Page 11.1101.4probe’. It is shown working on the coast of Florida conducting an experiment with thebiologists studying seagrass populations in the summer 2005. (A) (B) Figure 3: The first generation IMAPS agent system – the Torpedo. Figure 4: The second generation IMAPS agent – the Video Probe. The mechanical design was finalized at the third generation, a pontoon-style doublehull surface vehicle. Figure 5A is a 3-D CAD rendering of the design. With a moderatesize (1m x 1m x 0.4m), the agent provides a fair amount of payload

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Novel Measurement Experiments

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Henrik Åkesson, Blekinge Institute of Technology; Lars Hakansson, Blekinge Institute of Technology; Ingvar Gustavsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology; Ingvar Claesson, Blekinge Institute of Technology; Johan Zackrisson, Blekinge Institute of Technology; Thomas Lago, Acticut Inernational AB

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anexperimental modal analysis of the boring bar is shown in Fig. 6. These results werecaptured from the screen when conduction experiment via the client PC. In Fig. 6 a) is aFrequency Response Function (FRF) estimate presented and in Fig. 6 b) thecorresponding coherence function. a) b)Figure 6. Screen shoots of the client PC showing in a) a frequency response function estimate after afrequency response measurement and in b) the corresponding coherence function estimate. Page 11.1428.9Saving DataOne great advantage with this client compared to the previous version is the possibilityto

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Contemporary Instrumentation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Hergert, Miami University

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" Sheet.Range("A:A").ColumnWidth = 20 Dim Days As Integer Try Client.Connect(("127.0.0.1"), 7000) Dim Stream As NetworkStream = Client.GetStream() Dim w As New BinaryWriter(Stream) Dim r As New BinaryReader(Stream) Dim LoopTime As TimeSpan Dim InitialTime As Date Dim Astring As String Dim waitspan As TimeSpan = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(60) For i = 1 To 5 w.Write("Send") Astring = r.ReadString() Sheet.Range("A" & i + 1).Value = DateTime.Now Sheet.Range("B" & i + 1).Value = Astring InitialTime = DateTime.Now Do LoopTime = DateTime.Now.Subtract(InitialTime) Loop Until LoopTime.Ticks > waitspan.Ticks Next TextBox1.Text = Astring w.Write("Stop") Client.Close() Catch

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Modern Software Measurement Techniques

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Charles Neuman, Queensborough Community College; David Lieberman, Queensborough Community College; Don Engelberg, Queensborough Community College; Alex Flamholz, Queensborough Community College; Paul Marchese, Queensborough Community College; George Tremberger, Queensborough Community College; Tak Cheung, Queensborough Community College

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combines the power of Visual Basic,in the ease of calculation, and Excel, in the ease of data plotting. Exposure to this tool exposurein introductory engineering physics is very important for shaping students’ mindset for advancedcourses.II-B Parallel programmingLabVIEW is a parallel programming language. All the diagrams are executed together and acomponent starts execution only when the data for it is ready. A virtual instrument for asituation with several thermal emitters is used for demonstration. Three thermal emitters arerepresented by three diagrams and each diagram executes independently. The graphical blockdiagram is displayed below. Page

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Instrumentation and Measurements: Innovative Course Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Muff, Iowa State University; Theodore Heindel, Iowa State University; Sriram Sundararajan, Iowa State University

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UnshieldedELVIS oscilloscope output for the Instrument Wiresconfiguration shown in Fig. 4. The (i.e., Banana Cables)oscilloscope settings are adjusted as follows: Fig. 5: Schematic for capacitive couplingthe display for channel A is turned on while laboratory activity with anchannel B is turned off, the source is selected unshielded power cable.as “BNC/Board CH A”, the trigger source isset to “CH A”, and the vertical and timebase scales are adjusted to get several waveformscompletely on the screen. We note that the minimum sampling rate used in the measurement is10 kHz, which is well above the Nyquist criterion value for a 60 Hz line signal. The “MEAS”button for

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Contemporary Instrumentation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Seyed Allameh, Northern Kentucky University; Morteza Sadat-Hossieny, Northern Kentucky University; Paul Cooper, Northern Kentucky University

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and sand particles shown in the SE imageof Figure 5(b). The line in middle of the image represents the interface between twoconcrete layers. Image analysis on the elemental dot map of Figure 5(a) was done usingNIH Image J. Thresholding the red and green areas and calculating their area fraction,sand grains and cement matrix were found to make 32 vol% and 65 vol% of the concreteblock. The remaining 3% was attributed to porosity. The thickness of the interfacial bondlayer was small (e.g. a few microns thick compared to 2 mm thick concrete layers) anddid not enter into the chemical analysis. (a) (b) Fig.2. (a) Robotic construction of a miniaturized layered structure by two

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Developing New Instrumentation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bobbie Meredith, Middle Tennessee State University; Saleh Sbenaty, Middle Tennessee State University; Jason Thurmond, Schneider Electric, Power Monitoring and Control

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issued. To read different phases the user would enter the desired value andthen a decimal and then the desired phase. For example, M3.0 would be for sum, M3.1 would befor phase A, M3.2 would be for phase B, and M3.3 would be for phase C. For example thedisplay below shows the number and then the value in 6 digits with 3 of those at the right thedecimal point.The above indicates W.h Consumption on Phase B is 28.053 W.h. Figure 3 is the section of codethat prints the help menu in the hyper-terminal. It shows which whole numbers are aligned withthe indicated value types. Page 11.423.5 Figure 3. Print Code.3. Code

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Instrumentation and Measurements: Innovative Course Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sri Kolla, Bowling Green State University; Joseph Mainoo, Bowling Green State University

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. Less cost of purchase: a system that is based on fieldbus technology requires significantly less hardware than a traditional system. 6. Savings: fieldbus based systems will have a) engineering savings, b) construction savings, c) maintenance savings, and d) operation savings. 7. Lower cost of expansion and change: Since fieldbus systems are cheaper to buy and deploy, they are also cheaper to expand and modify.There are many fieldbus networks. Noel classified fieldbuses as discrete buses and processbuses [15]. Discrete buses primarily focus in the discrete manufacturing area and are typicallyON/OFF action, simple switches or low-level sensors. Competing discrete buses are: AS-I bus,Devicenet, Interbus-S, Profibus DP, SERCOS

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Modern Software Measurement Techniques

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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El-Sayed Aziz, Stevens Institute of Technology; Sven Esche, Stevens Institute of Technology; Constantin Chassapis, Stevens Institute of Technology

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. Three strain gages are installed at equal intervals along the axis of the beam as shown in Figure 4. As the students learn in class, the stretching of an electrical conductor increases its resistance. The gages are designed to take advantage of this effect to measure the strain. The purpose of this experiment is to determine the shear force and the load from the strain measurements, to verify the linearity of the strain along the beam axis, and to confirm the shear force and moment relationships by comparing two different methods for determining the stresses. b) Beam with hole: The purpose of this experiment is to demonstrate the existence of stress and strain concentrations in the vicinity of a geometric

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Contemporary Instrumentation

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mark Rajai, Northern Kentucky University; Hank Javan, University of Memphis; Seyed Allameh, Northern Kentucky University; Horold Wiebe, Northern Kentucky University

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nanotechnology is being adopted in undergraduatecurricula, teaching MEMS instrumentation becomes more relevant to the engineeringtechnology programs.Bibliography1. Graduate Bulletin, The University of Memphis, 1001-2003.2. H. Javan, B. Pappas, "Simulating Transistor Characteristics", Proceeding of the International Association of Science and Technology Development, Modeling and Simulation, pp. 60-63, 2000. Page 11.471.103. H. javan, A. Crawford, "Computer Aided Instrumentation Design", ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition Proceedings, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2001.Page 11.471.11

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Modern Software Measurement Techniques

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tracey Windley, University of Idaho; Jasper Nance, University of Idaho; Kevin Buck, University of Idaho; Herbert Hess, University of Idaho

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2006-1304: INSTANT DATA GATHERING, PROCESSING, AND DISPLAY FORINDUSTRY SPONSOR USING INTERFACED SOFTWARE PACKAGESTracey Windley, University of Idaho Tracey Windley grew up in Moscow Idaho and started his education at the University of Idaho in 2002 for a BS Electrical Engineering. He is currently a senior emphasizing his education in microelectronics and semiconductor physics. He is currently at the MRCI at the Univeristy of Idaho doing research in the area of microelectronics.Jasper Nance, University of IdahoKevin Buck, University of IdahoHerbert Hess, University of Idaho Herb Hess received the PhD degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1993. He served on the faculty of the United

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Novel Measurement Experiments

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jun Kondo, University of Hartford; Santiago Noriega, University of Hartford; Devdas Shetty, University of Hartford

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2006-2619: NON CONTACT VIBRATION ANALYSIS USING INNOVATIVELASER BASED METHODOLOGYDevdas Shetty, University of HartfordJun Kondo, University of Hartford JUn Kondo is a research engineer at the Engineering Applications Center, University of HartfordSantiago Noriega, University of Hartford Santiago Noriega is a graduate student of Mechanical Engineering. He hold a Bachelor degree in Mechanical Engineering Page 11.960.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006 NON CONTACT VIBRATION ANALYSIS USING INNOVATIVE LASER BASED METHODOLOGY Devdas Shetty, Santiago Noriega and Jun Kondo

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Instrumentation and Measurements: Innovative Course Development

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2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

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David Beams, University of Texas-Tyler

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2006-1813: PROJECT TUNA II - BODE ANALYZER AND TEACHING TOOLDavid Beams, University of Texas-Tyler DAVID M. BEAMS is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Texas at Tyler. He received his BS and MS degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in and the Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has had over 16 years of industrial experience in addition to his 8 years with UT-Tyler. He is a licensed professional engineer in Wisconsin and Texas and holds or shares four patents. Page 11.1045.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2006